The user-safety practices of tech firms will be put under the spotlight under draft transparency reporting plans announced by Ofcom. Under the Online Safety Act, ‘categorised services’, which include some of the most widely used social media and search services, are required to produce transparency reports at least annually. This means that, for the first […]

SAG-AFTRA the actors union has called a strike against video game companies that use actors’ images or voices in games. The strike will start immediately, after more than a year and a half of negotiations. Members of the 160,000-person union will no longer “act” in video games produced by Activision Blizzard, WB Games, Electronic Arts […]

Anti-piracy coalition the Alliance for Creativity and Entertainment (ACE), has commended the Vietnamese court and local law enforcement for the conviction of the three operators of the illegal streaming websites bilutvt.net, tvhayh.org, and hlss.pro in a case in which various ACE members were complainants. The People’s Court of Quang Binh Province sentenced the primary operator, […]

Ministerial briefs have been finalised at the UK’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport, as follows: The Rt Hon Lisa Nandy MP Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Overall responsibility for strategy and policy across the department Sir Chris Bryant MP, Minister for Creative Industries, Arts, and Tourism: Arts and Libraries Creative Industries Museums […]

A long-running Class Action against certain Intelsat directors and their investment firms and its then chairman (Dave McGlade) alleging inside trading has been dismissed by a US Appeals Court. The Class Action, led by a hedge fund Walleye Opportunities Master Fund, and others, had “failed to adequately show that the insiders learned adverse news about […]

The president of Portugal’s public broadcaster, RTP, has called for a review of the company’s channel structure. In a parliamentary hearing, Nicolau Santos questioned the viability of RTP’s current eight television and seven radio channels in today’s rapidly changing media landscape. Santos emphasised the need to align RTP with modern audience preferences, which have shifted […]

Ofcom has published the latest figures for complaints it received about the UK’s major mobile, broadband and pay-TV providers. These figures cover the first quarter of 2024, from January to March. During that time, complaints fell compared to the previous quarter – complaints about fixed broadband, pay-TV and landlines all fell while complaints about mobile services […]

Arcom, the French media regulator, has pre-selected the channels that applied for national broadcasting authorisation on terrestrial hertzian (TNT) frequencies. Digital terrestrial television (DTT), the exclusive reception mode for nearly 20 per cent of households in France, remains an essential means of broadcasting for the public. Taken together, DTT channels constitute the most structuring offering […]

The European Commission (EC) has raised press freedom concerns after Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni’s government was accused of interfering with Italian public broadcaster Rai and silencing critical voices. Věra Jourová, the European Commission vice-president overseeing values and transparency, warned of a funding squeeze and alleged “intimidation” of journalists after unveiling an annual report on the […]

Ofcom has fined TikTok £1.875 million (€2.1m) for failing to accurately respond to a formal request for information about its parental controls safety feature. Ofcom explains that it  sought information from video-sharing platforms under regulations that pre-date the UK’s Online Safety Act, to inform a planned report highlighting the safety measures they have in place […]